Re: Should Suse Users abandon KDE ?!

From: Chuck Huber (mrhuber2003_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/12/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:56:50 -0800

Hieron wrote:
> Jensen Carpenter, Astronaut wrote:
>
>> in wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> GNOME is a Mac-Killer in my opinion!
>>
>>
>>
>> Plus I'm running Thunderbird now on it.
>>
>> Geez, this is really stable.
>>
>> It used to crap out on KDE.
>>
>> I bet monodevelop is a lot smoother...and firefox.
>>
>> I'm thinking of going GNOME on my home machine.
>>
>> Also, I like the little red "N" in the upper left.
>
>
> I never ever could like Gnome. Sorry, no offence, but I wish it never
> existed. I cannot imagine an uglier interface than what GTK1 provided.
> GTK2 is much nicer, but, hey, I click on File-Open in Gimp and browse to
> a folder on my server buried under many subfolders... do you think I can
> put a bookmark there? No. So the next time I open the same application I
> have to click-click-ckick my way back to the folder again. My finger is
> wearing out...
Gimp can and do this and I use it all the time. Just select the folder
and click "Add". It adds a bookmark to the left window pane.
>
> Or I browse away from that folder, do you think I can just return by
> clicking on the bookmark? No, I need to click-click-click again and
> again. Makes me sick.
Again, I think you will find this functionality is there now.
>
> In KDE life is simpler for guys like me. Just bookmark the folder in
> Konqueror and return any time.
>
> And what about Nautilus? Is it a tabbed file manager? It is more like
> the senseless Windows Explorer. Konqueror wins outright.
Konqueror is awsome and it is better at certain tasks than Nautilus.
However I do like Nautilus' built in CD Creator and the View as Catalog
feature for quickly scanning large image directories. Nautilus' right
click context menu for burning an .iso images is nice too.
>
> And I want to compile a program that was written for Gnome. How many
> dependencies do I need to harvest from the Internet? An almost
> impossible task. I tried it once with compiling Gnumeric, then gave it
> up. Why is this dependency hell in Gnome, I don't know. It seems to be
> very disorganised, all over the place.
>
> KDE could improve on the look side of things, but I never ever had
> problems compiling a KDE application.
>
I have had a few issues compiling programs from both platforms but
nothing I thought abnormally difficult.

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